Mylan has been overcharging Medicaid for EpiPens by misclassifying the product as a generic drug, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. (CNBC)
Some hospitals in Florida are closing and others are battening down in preparation for Hurricane Matthew. (NBC News)
Physicians in many specialties tend to have the same political leanings -- surgeons go right, psychiatrists left -- according to new research from Yale. (New York Times)
Speaking of politics, got less than a month to live? Try to hang on long enough to vote, says Donald Trump. (Newsweek)
Here's an addiction you probably never heard of: addicted to hair-replacement procedures. Sportscaster Joe Buck admits to it. (Sports Illustrated)
Lead poisoning in kids is way, way down, the CDC reports.
Brexit wasn't supposed to have much effect on healthcare, but now it put this guy in a hospital. (Daily Mail)
Women's verbal advantage can hide the early stages of Alzheimer's, MedPage Today's Kate Kneisel reports.
Remember the Dallas nurse who was diagnosed with Ebola on her way back from Ohio in 2014, where she had gone to buy a bridal gown? Well, the dress shop she visited was forced to close, and now the owners are suing Texas Presbyterian Hospital where she contracted the virus. (Dallas News)
Medicare would like to encourage more dialysis patients to treat themselves at home. (Kaiser Health News)
Doctors aren't so great at saying sorry, even after making serious mistakes. (MedPage Today)
Republican lawmakers are questioning NIH funding to the International Agency for Research on Cancer, which often irritates industry with reports on potentially carcinogenic chemicals. (Reuters)
Is acute flaccid myelitis having a resurgence? Hard to tell from CDC data, but consumer media like People are in a tizzy about it.
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